Anti-Free Speech Obama; Pro-Islamic Obama

Jonathan Turley noted in an important article that Obama has sided with a U.N. Muslim effort to stifle free speech. In his advocacy of restricting free speech Obama joined Egypt in sponsoring the non-binding admonition not to criticize Islam. As Doug Mataconis points out at Below the Beltway, there is no room in a free society for laws restricting freely expressed or held views against any religion, as the Supreme Court made clear in the 1952 case Burstyn v. Williams:

[F]rom the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them which is sufficient to justify prior restraints upon the expression of those views. It is not the business of government in our nation to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine, whether they appear in publications, speeches, or motion pictures.

It is very disconcerting that a sitting American president would join hands with a Muslim military dictatorship to stifle free speech.